Thanks to those who participated! I used your results to tweak the city-choosing algorithm. It is now implemented in the live NUKEMAP.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1144970009774567425 …
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If you visit NUKEMAP now, it ought to start you in a fairly large city near you, or (if it can't find one of sufficient size near you) your national capital, or just NYC if it can't figure out where else to put you.https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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The hardest part here was finding a good list of cities. I ended up taking a database of global cities and screening by population, and then doing a kind of "orbit clearing" whereby large cities edged out smaller cities near them in various ways.pic.twitter.com/fLlYbuFKyg
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For the US it gives a plausible distribution. I'm less familiar with Europe so it's harder for me to say (but I didn't want to just pick capitals as targets), but it seems to be OK. Goal here is not to be perfect, just to start the user in a sensible place.pic.twitter.com/W7q5xdf6q4
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I may tweak the city list as time goes by; it is just a database and is easy to change/update/etc. I opted not to choose non-city targets for the initial start point; I thought it would be confusing to people to have it be a random military base.
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It would be easier to add more cities; the tricky thing is that because IP information is so inaccurate, it would be putting people in pretty random places. So I tried to make it "the largest city in the region with at least 200,000 people, or the national capital."
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